Psychiatry, Nature and Culture

Welcome messages

The GLADET members (Latin American Group of Transculturales Studies, A.C.) gives you a warm welcome. We are enchanted to invite yuo to participate in the first GLADET International Congress 2008, Psychiatry, nature and culture: from singular to universal, that will take place in between the 17th and 19th of april in Guadalajara, Jalisco, México, one of the greatest, most beautiful and modern cities of our country.

In order to complement the scientific program, diverse social and tourist events have been planned to show the congressman and their companion the fantastic colors of Guadalajara and its environs, such as Tequila, Tonalá,
Tlaquepaque, Chapala, Guachimontones, just to mention a few, besides having the opportunity to enjoy previous or subsequent to the congress, many different tours to other world-wide famous sites of enormous cultural
interest and fun.

We wish you to share with us your professional expertise and practice in transcultural psychiatry in the spaces that GLADET International Congress offers for that matter, besides, to enjoy our wonderful city.

Dr. Sergio Villaseñor Bayardo

The World Association of Cultural Psychiatry (WACP) was established to promote the exchange of academic information and the progress of international scientific activity worldwide in the field of cultural psychiatry, as well as to advance cultural psychiatry in different regions around the world.

The WACP is pleased to co-sponsor the WPA-TPS/GLADET International Conference on Cultural Psychiatry in Guadalajara, Mexico. The meeting represents a great opportunity to interact with colleagues around world, particularly from North, Central, and South America, to exchange knowledge and experience from our fields. It will be a wonderful opportunity to better understand the effect of the Latino culture on issues pertaining cultural psychiatry, culture and mental health.

We are very grateful to the Latin America Group on Transcultural Studies (GLADET) to serve as the local organizing counterpart, in particular, to Professor Sergio J. Villaseñor Bayardo for his enthusiasm and hard work vested in the organization of this international conference in a city rich in culture and traditions as Guadalajara, Mexico.

You are warmly welcome to participate in this regional meeting in Mexico.

Wen Shing-Tseng
President
World Association of Cultural Psichiatry (WACP)

The GLADET conference in Guadalajara will be a landmark event for several reasons. The first conference of GLADET, the Latin American Group on Transcultural Studies, will take place during this occasion and will bring together academics and clinicians from Latin America working in the growing discipline of culture and mental health studies. Also, the conference will be sponsored in coordination by the World Psychiatric Association’s Transcultural Psychiatry Section (WPA-TPS), GLADET and the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry (WACP).

The WPA’s Transcultural Psychiatry Section was established more than thirty years ago and has observed since, an increase in membership and the number of sponsored meetings taking place with each World Congress on Psychiatry. At the most recent World Congress in Cairo on September, 2005, 3 out of 16 special meetings included culture in their agendas while others dealt specifically with cultural psychiatry. Out of 105 section meetings, 18 concentrated on cultural psychiatry; ten of these were organized by TPS affiliates and presented the work of both TPS and non-TPS members. In addition to the special and section discussions, 35 out 129 regular meetings focused on cultural psychiatry as well as numerous workshops, individual presentations and poster sessions.

We have been successful in keeping the saliency and relevance of cultural psychiatry as a discipline within psychiatry to the extent that nowadays, there is a sense of ‘style’ associated to the inclusion of cultural issues in current psychiatry debates. I am confident that for the 2008 XIV World Congress of Psychiatry in Prague, cultural psychiatry will continue to hold a prominent place in the scientific program.

I presided over the WPA-TPS at the Cairo World Congress and since then, the Section has held conferences twice a year: in 2006, in Vienna on April and in Beijing on September, concurring with the First World Congress of Cultural Psychiatry. In April, 2007, the WPA-TPS conference in Kamakura, Japan -jointly sponsored by the Japanese Society of Transcultural Psychiatry (JSTP) and the WACP- brought together more than 200 people, roughly half of them from Japan and half from countries in Asia, Oceania, Europe, North and Latin America.

Our next international conference will take place in Stockholm from September 9-12, jointly sponsored by the WPA-TPS, the WACP and the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture (SSPC).

The Guadalajara Conference will be the first WPA-TPS International Conference to be convened in Mexico. I am very grateful to Prof. Sergio Villasenor Bayardo and the members of the Organizing Committee, for hosting this meeting. I am delighted that it will take place in Guadalajara, a city of great historical and cultural traditions, famous for warmly welcoming its visitors.

I look forward to meeting you all in Guadalajara to officially welcome you to our WPA-TPS/GLADET International Conference on Cultural Psychiatry, and to learn of your work and contributions to our scientific program.

Moreover, I encourage you to spend additional time in Jalisco and other regions of Mexico, as your travel into Guadalajara to participate in our meeting. For the richness in archaeological, cultural, historical and artistic traditions, Mexico has few equals in the world.

Ronald M. Wintrob
WPA-TPS President




		Welcome messages The GLADET members (Latin American Group of Transculturales Studies, A.C.) gives you a warm welcome. We are enchanted to invite yuo to participate in the first GLADET International Congress 2008, Psychiatry, nature and culture: from singular to universal, that will take place in between the 17th and 19th of april in Guadalajara, Jalisco, México, one of the greatest, most beautiful and modern cities of our country. In order to complement the scientific program, diverse social and tourist events have been planned to show the congressman and their companion the fantastic colors of Guadalajara and its environs, such as Tequila, Tonalá, Tlaquepaque, Chapala, Guachimontones, just to mention a few, besides having the opportunity to enjoy previous or subsequent to the congress, many different tours to other world-wide famous sites of enormous cultural interest and fun. We wish you to share with us your professional expertise and practice in transcultural psychiatry in the spaces that GLADET International Congress offers for that matter, besides, to enjoy our wonderful city. Dr. Sergio Villaseñor Bayardo The World Association of Cultural Psychiatry (WACP) was established to promote the exchange of academic information and the progress of international scientific activity worldwide in the field of cultural psychiatry, as well as to advance cultural psychiatry in different regions around the world. The WACP is pleased to co-sponsor the WPA-TPS/GLADET International Conference on Cultural Psychiatry in Guadalajara, Mexico. The meeting represents a great opportunity to interact with colleagues around world, particularly from North, Central, and South America, to exchange knowledge and experience from our fields. It will be a wonderful opportunity to better understand the effect of the Latino culture on issues pertaining cultural psychiatry, culture and mental health. We are very grateful to the Latin America Group on Transcultural Studies (GLADET) to serve as the local organizing counterpart, in particular, to Professor Sergio J. Villaseñor Bayardo for his enthusiasm and hard work vested in the organization of this international conference in a city rich in culture and traditions as Guadalajara, Mexico. You are warmly welcome to participate in this regional meeting in Mexico. Wen Shing-Tseng President World Association of Cultural Psichiatry (WACP) The GLADET conference in Guadalajara will be a landmark event for several reasons. The first conference of GLADET, the Latin American Group on Transcultural Studies, will take place during this occasion and will bring together academics and clinicians from Latin America working in the growing discipline of culture and mental health studies. Also, the conference will be sponsored in coordination by the World Psychiatric Association’s Transcultural Psychiatry Section (WPA-TPS), GLADET and the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry (WACP). The WPA’s Transcultural Psychiatry Section was established more than thirty years ago and has observed since, an increase in membership and the number of sponsored meetings taking place with each World Congress on Psychiatry. At the most recent World Congress in Cairo on September, 2005, 3 out of 16 special meetings included culture in their agendas while others dealt specifically with cultural psychiatry. Out of 105 section meetings, 18 concentrated on cultural psychiatry; ten of these were organized by TPS affiliates and presented the work of both TPS and non-TPS members. In addition to the special and section discussions, 35 out 129 regular meetings focused on cultural psychiatry as well as numerous workshops, individual presentations and poster sessions. We have been successful in keeping the saliency and relevance of cultural psychiatry as a discipline within psychiatry to the extent that nowadays, there is a sense of ‘style’ associated to the inclusion of cultural issues in current psychiatry debates. I am confident that for the 2008 XIV World Congress of Psychiatry in Prague, cultural psychiatry will continue to hold a prominent place in the scientific program. I presided over the WPA-TPS at the Cairo World Congress and since then, the Section has held conferences twice a year: in 2006, in Vienna on April and in Beijing on September, concurring with the First World Congress of Cultural Psychiatry. In April, 2007, the WPA-TPS conference in Kamakura, Japan -jointly sponsored by the Japanese Society of Transcultural Psychiatry (JSTP) and the WACP- brought together more than 200 people, roughly half of them from Japan and half from countries in Asia, Oceania, Europe, North and Latin America. Our next international conference will take place in Stockholm from September 9-12, jointly sponsored by the WPA-TPS, the WACP and the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture (SSPC). The Guadalajara Conference will be the first WPA-TPS International Conference to be convened in Mexico. I am very grateful to Prof. Sergio Villasenor Bayardo and the members of the Organizing Committee, for hosting this meeting. I am delighted that it will take place in Guadalajara, a city of great historical and cultural traditions, famous for warmly welcoming its visitors. I look forward to meeting you all in Guadalajara to officially welcome you to our WPA-TPS/GLADET International Conference on Cultural Psychiatry, and to learn of your work and contributions to our scientific program. Moreover, I encourage you to spend additional time in Jalisco and other regions of Mexico, as your travel into Guadalajara to participate in our meeting. For the richness in archaeological, cultural, historical and artistic traditions, Mexico has few equals in the world. Ronald M. Wintrob WPA-TPS President